It is reported Lee Kuan Yew's son the Prime Minister claims the reluctance to work and posted overseas by their companies impedes Singapore's potential. Apparently, according to him they resist overseas postings by their companies due to concerns such as their children's education and spouses career, making it hard to uproot. It seems he made this astounding remark at the IE Singapore's 30th anniversary dinner.

Anyone following the interesting political situation in that island would no doubt be surprised. As far as I know, for at least the last two decades, the main insurmountable problem that the island faced, and indeed continues to face is it's huge and mounting brain drain to the West.

To try to correct this, we have seen Senior Minister Goh Chock Tong in desperation calling Singaporeans who have settled abroad "quitters" while Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's dictator has called them "ungrateful".

We have also seen them as well as Minister Liu Tuck Yew making several trips to the capitals of the world, including San Francisco where I am, to where Singaporeans have fled to coax them to return. We also know that none have so far ever come back as a result of which they have given up even mentioning the problem anymore. I suppose they reckon it pointless to flog a dead horse.

But against all that we thought was the problem, now the son, the Prime Minister says their problem is just the reverse; that Singaporeans don't want to go abroad!

This is why state controlled newspapers in totalitarian countries such as the former Soviet Union, todays China and Cuba receive very little respect, because you can simply say what you want. Understandably most Singaporeans pay very little attention to their local media since there is very little one can do about it.

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Born Singapore, educated Winstedt School 2 (next to Monks Hill in Newton, Singapore) Raffles Institution, National Service, some travel in Europe, then law studies England, return to Singapore, practiced for 10 years, active Workers Party member, stood elections 1988 and 1991 in Singapore, was harassed and persecuted by Lee Kuan Yew for my political beliefs, left for USA, obtained asylum and admitted California State Bar, practice law ever since in Fremont California near San Francisco. Relinquished Singapore citizenship 2005 because I was not prepared to permit Lee Kuan Yew to unjustly retain my CPF funds if I remained Singapore Citizen. On principle, the only correct thing for me to do was to give it up, for my CPF funds. I am an American Citizen as of 2004.